Luis Gnecco

Acting

Luis Gnecco

Born

1962-12-12 (63)

Place of birth

Santiago, Chile

Known for

Acting

Credits

83 titles

Luis Gnecco Dessy was born in Santiago, Chile. He is one of Chile's most popular comedic actors, tackling the Ricky Gervais part in his country's 2008 version of "The Office". Pablo Larraín cast him in a decidedly non-comedic role as an unscrupulous villain in HBO Latin America's hit mini-series "Prófugos". Gnecco appeared in Fabula's provocative "Young and Wild" before assuming the role of the man who recruits Saavedra to join the NO campaign; it was a natural fit for the actor, as he was deeply involved in the 1988 movement to overthrow Pinochet.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths poster
6.8

A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

2022

El Retorno poster
NR

A scholarly Vatican priest is tasked with investigating an extraordinary 'miracle': his brother Abel has awakened from an irreversible coma, claiming to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

El Retorno

2025

Confessions poster
7.1

When a young girl from a wealthy Mexico City family disappears, a man arrives to discuss the girl's return, asking for the confession of a family member that has committed a terrible act. One by one, confession by confession, the intruder exposes each member of the family, revealing their deepest and most shocking secrets.

Confessions

2023

La Fuente poster
3.0

Luca Barella (56), owner of La Fuente, a sandwich shop amid Chile's protests, faces ruin and illness. After rescuing a photographer, his shop becomes a target. Guided by Iaido's harmony, Luca defends his legacy as chaos closes in.

La Fuente

2025

Nobody Knows I'm Here poster
6.6

Memo lives on a remote Chilean sheep farm, hiding a beautiful singing voice from the outside world. A recluse with a glittery flair, he can't stop dwelling on the past, but what will happen once someone finally listens?

Nobody Knows I'm Here

2020

My Tender Matador poster
7.4

Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.

My Tender Matador

2020

La regola d'oro poster
5.7

Between Lazio, Taormina and Morocco is the story of Ettore, a young Italian soldier kidnapped in Lebanon after an act of insubordination. After several months of captivity, he is freed and finally returned to Italy. His home country waits for him with bated breath, ready to hail him as a hero. The army itself wants to present him in this capacity at the Taormina Film Festival. But the protagonist has only one wish: to disappear and leave the past behind. However, his expectations are not pandered to, and the soldier is entrusted to a TV writer whose job it is to prepare him for the show. And who knows, on stage Hector may discover a way to make peace with his past....

La regola d'oro

2021

La peste del insomnio poster
NR

30 actresses and actors from Latin America, seek to evoke hope in the midst of the health and economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19, through the reading of fragments from the work of Gabriel García Márquez alluding to the plague of oblivion.

La peste del insomnio

2020

Kill Pinochet poster
6.3

Chile, September 1986. Tamara, commander of the communist guerrilla group Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, and her comrades-in-arms set out to overthrow the military regime installed in 1973 by assassinating the dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Kill Pinochet

2020

Borges and Me poster
9.0

Jay Parini finds himself stuck in a Morris Minor, chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Jorge Luis Borges through Scotland. Quiet and conservative, 23-year-old student Parini dreams of becoming a writer but is at a loss to make sense of the wild, irrepressible 70-year-old Borges. As the journey takes a surreal turn, their differences magnify until, in the tradition of a classic road trip, the two ultimately find common ground.

Borges and Me

2026

Savages poster
7.5

Sonia and Arturo live in a house that appears safe but is too large and silent. One night, three armed men violently break into the couple's property. Arturo manages to escape and capture the youngest and most inexperienced of the thieves, deciding to kidnap him and discipline him in the basement of the house. Gradually, the anger dissipates, and strange familial ties emerge that Arturo and Sonia believed were long gone. "Salvajes" is a violent portrayal of a divided society, in an unequal social fabric where the boundaries between victim and perpetrator become blurred.

Savages

2024

Un loco matrimonio en cuarentena poster
NR

A couple must overcome different pandemic-related altercations during their virtual wedding in order to maintain an ordinary and stable marriage ceremony.

Un loco matrimonio en cuarentena

2021

2010s · 19 titles

The Two Popes poster
7.5

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

The Two Popes

2019

A Fantastic Woman poster
7.0

Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.

A Fantastic Woman

2017

No poster
7.2

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

No

2012

Neruda poster
6.3

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

Neruda

2016

Into the Labyrinth poster
6.3

When a kidnapping victim turns up alive after fifteen years, a profiler and a private investigator try to piece together the mystery.

Into the Labyrinth

2019

El Angel poster
7.4

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

El Angel

2018

Young and Wild poster
6.2

Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.

Young and Wild

2012

Much Ado About Nothing poster
5.9

After a night of partying, Vicente is involved in a hit-and-run that kills a man. Vicente claims his innocence, but he was drunk and high. A tangled web of lies buries the truth, making a social scandal disappear — exonerating the real culprit, the son of a powerful politician.

Much Ado About Nothing

2016

Isolated poster
6.0

After finding himself in a wrecked taxi, Evan tries to figure out the pieces of the puzzle, while dealing with a dangerous threat, in a seemingly deserted city.

Isolated

2015

The Stranger poster
4.7

A supernatural thriller, laced by flashbacks, and set in Canada’s North-West, “The Stranger” turns on the mysterious titular figure of Martin, who comes to a small quiet town seeking to kill his wife Ana who suffers from a very dangerous decease that makes her addicted to human blood - just like himself-. However, when he arrives to the town, he discovers that Ana has been dead for a couple of years and decides to commit suicide to definitely eradicate this dangerous decease, but, before he can do it, Martin's brutally attacked by three local thugs led by Caleb, the son of a corrupt police lieutenant, and the incident suddenly starts a snowball that will plunge the community into a bloodbath.

The Stranger

2014

Aurora poster
4.0

After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.

Aurora

2014

Post Mortem poster
6.0

In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.

Post Mortem

2010

Artax poster
7.0

Mariana is a woman who has dedicated her entire life to equine therapy that goes over the history of how she came to that. In her youth she lived a happy and prosperous life until a particular episode leads her to have to face millionaires debts. This situation can lead to being left homeless and especially without their horses, among which stands out Artax, the only being with which his son Bruno with Asperger's syndrome manages to have a special bond that helps him to cope with his life with harmony. Mariana must fight against wind and tide in this story of struggle and resilience sustained by the love of a mother and her son.

Artax

2017

Blood Will Tell poster
6.0

Thriller about a family whose ties are put to the test when the patriarch’s wife dies.

Blood Will Tell

2019

Karadima Forest poster
7.1

Based on true events, involving powerful Catholic priest Fernando Karadima, who committed crimes of child abuse and pedophile between 1980's-2000's. The struggle of his victims, to be able to reveal the truth and look for justice.

Karadima Forest

2015

The Office Trip poster
7.0

An international company has acquired “Supermarkets Océano”. The long-awaited end-of-the-year tour has been replaced by a day of integration according to "international standards". A group of workers willing to demand their rights will make this Office Trip an unforgettable day.

The Office Trip

2012

First Light poster
5.6

Marco, a cynical and ambitious young lawyer, lives in Bari with his partner Martina and their eight-year-old son Mateo. Martina had left Chile and moved to Italy when she met Marco. Their relationship has run its course, however, and Martina longs to go back to her country with Mateo, but Marco, the loving father left out of the equation, is adamantly against the idea. The couple clash for weeks on end, until Martina abruptly leaves the country with their son, goes back to Chile and virtually vanishes. With no news of Mateo, time seems to stand still for Marco. Anguished and unable to cope, he finally rallies and sets off in search of his son.

First Light

2015

Pérez poster
NR

The encounter between an in mature and irresponsible forty-year-old and his 22 year old daughter, Roma, whom he hasn't seen more than a few times in his whole life.

Pérez

2012

El Derechazo poster
2.5

When Bruno, a filmmaker overwhelmed by alimony, receives an ultimatum from his editor to find a subject that help them with ratings, a political candidate appears.

El Derechazo

2013

2000s · 9 titles

Sex with Love poster
6.5

In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.

Sex with Love

2003

The Black Pimpernel poster
5.2

The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973.

The Black Pimpernel

2007

The Dancer and the Thief poster
5.6

Present day. Chile. Legendary bank robber Vergara Grey is getting out of prison after 5 long years and is looking forward to a quiet, uneventful life together with his wife and son whom oddly he hasn't heard from in years. But soon his resolve is tested when he meets 19 year old Angel a young thief who insists the two join up to score the biggest heist of all time. Though tempted, he resists until he finds out that his beloved wife has gone off with a millionaire and his son wants to change his last name. Then Victoria, a graceful and mysteriously mute dancer living in a conservatory, steps into the picture. She captivates Vergara and Angel, as well as all others that cross her path, drastically changing their lives.

The Dancer and the Thief

2009

Our Father poster
6.9

Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies.

Our Father

2006

Casa de remolienda poster
4.3

Concerned about the future of her three children, a widow takes them to the city with the purpose of getting them married.

Casa de remolienda

2007

Chile Can Do It poster
4.3

The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back.

Chile Can Do It

2008

Alberto: ¿Quién sabe cuánto cuesta hacer un ojal? poster
9.0

Alberto, a young law student struggles to realize his ultimate dream: to follow the call of his priestly vocation.

Alberto: ¿Quién sabe cuánto cuesta hacer un ojal?

2005

The Night Visitor poster
8.0

Elisa, a lonely and shy librarian, moves to live in a downtown building, without knowing the killing of a young student took place there some time ago. A strange feeling taking over her will cause a drastic personality change while also leading her to unveil the secret behind the murder.

The Night Visitor

2009

Time Off poster
6.0

When Camilo and his girlfriend, Pola, start to struggle in their relationship, she asks for a week away from him to assess the situation. Although Camilo agrees, he feels confused, as his undemanding life is made uncomfortable for the first time. Soon he meets Mikela, a disaffected teenage girl whom he befriends. However, when Camilo discovers Mikela's past diagnosis as a schizophrenic, he begins to worry about her safety.

Time Off

2005

Series credits

Mentiras verdaderas poster
5.5

Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.

Mentiras verdaderas

2011

Narcos poster
8.1

A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

Narcos

2015

Pasapalabra poster
2.0

Game show in which every episode two contestants team with celebrities to play various games. A team's correct responses in these games score seconds, extending their contestant's time limit in the final game, known as 'el rosco'.

Pasapalabra

2018

La Máquina poster
6.7

After a devastating loss, Esteban “La Máquina” Osuna is at a low point in his boxing career. Lucky for him, his manager and best friend Andy Lujan is determined to get him back on top. But when a nefarious organization rears its head, the stakes of this rematch become life or death. Esteban must juggle his own personal demons and protect his family.

La Máquina

2024

La divina comida poster
4.0

Four celebrities invite each other to their homes and compete to be the best host, where night after night they must cook for the other guests, who in turn will be both the judges and their rivals.

La divina comida

2016

La noche es nuestra poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

La noche es nuestra

2018

Purasangre poster
5.0

As a result of a vile abuse cause in the past, Violeta Salazar has sworn to herself to take revenge on the Callassis family and all their descendants. She sends her daughter Amanda to make the life of the Callasis as miserable as possible, but love can be surprising, and not everything comes out as planned.

Purasangre

2002

Podemos hablar poster
4.0

Talk show in which six personalities from different fields (politics, entertainment, sports, among others), exchange opinions on various topics and personal experiences.

Podemos hablar

2019

La jauría poster
7.3

Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their lives and that of their families at risk. As they look for Blanca and investigate, they will find out that behind this gender crime there is much more than just one offender.

La jauría

2020

Soltera otra vez poster
1.3

A real estate broker discovers that her boyfriend cheats on her with a younger woman, so she will be single again and start a desperate search for love.

Soltera otra vez

2012

El Presidente poster
7.2

Sergio Jadue, a lowly director of a small-town soccer club in Chile, unexpectedly finds himself at the head of the Chilean soccer association. Drunk with power, he becomes the protégé of soccer godfather Julio Grondona, as well as the FBI’s key to undoing the largest corruption scheme in the world of soccer.

El Presidente

2020

Amores de mercado poster
6.0

'Pelluco' Solís, a young lower-middle class waiter, crosses paths with Rodolfo Ruttenmeyer -a man who looks just like him- in an unfortunate accident that will change their lives forever.

Amores de mercado

2001

Rompecorazón poster
5.5

A rich man decides to fake his death in order to save himself from a millionaire debt, before fleeing to Europe for a facial surgery. He leaves his fortune to one of his 3 lovers, while the other 2 and their families have to deal with the ecomic aftermath.

Rompecorazón

1994

De pé a pá poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

De pé a pá

1996

Vértigo poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vértigo

2003

Los Espookys poster
6.3

A group of friends turn their love for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to those who need it, in a dreamy Latin American country where the strange and eerie are just part of daily life.

Los Espookys

2019

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Viva el lunes

1995

La vida es una lotería poster
5.0

Different stories about people having more luck than usual...

La vida es una lotería

2002

Brujas poster
4.7

Beatriz married Vicente, her ideal man. The problem is that it was not only ideal for her, but for everyone else. Vicente dies in "a night of passion" from a heart attack, Beatriz's uncontrollable jealousy leads her to hires Dante, a poker player who will seduce the five suspects and by doing so, shed light on to the mystery.

Brujas

2005

Papi Ricky poster
4.0

The relationship between Ricky and his daughter will suffer when the girl's mother returns and wants her back.

Papi Ricky

2007

La torre de Mabel poster
2.0

Mabel Andrade, a wealthy woman who after an incident is expelled from her home and threatened with the loss of her children's tuition. In a desperate attempt to earn a living and regain her role as mother, Mabel will start a daring business venture: a clandestine motel.

La torre de Mabel

2021

Profugos poster
5.7

Four men become fugitives after a failed drug deal, running from north to south of Chile.

Profugos

2011

Thou Shalt Not Kill poster
6.7

Valeria Ferro, an inspector of the Turin Homicide Squad, is a young and extremely skilled police officer, with a keen intuition and an obsession: the truth. But her past reveals a wound that dates back to her adolescence, when her mother, Lucia, was convicted of her husband's murder.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

2015

Here on Earth poster
6.1

Follows the life of Carlos, a member of one of the most powerful families in Mexico and whose life takes an "U" turn when his father is found dead.

Here on Earth

2018

Trampas y caretas poster
4.5

A billionaire and obsessive mother entrusts a woman named Mariana with the job of falling in love with one of her two sons in exchange of a generous monthly check. However, Carmen's wishes will not be easy to fulfill, as both men have totally opposite personalities.

Trampas y caretas

1992

Adrenalina poster
7.3

After her parents' murder, Cathy Winter flees to Santiago. At Adrenalina, a new club, she meets her soulmate, a publisher, and her best friend, a shy DJ, during the 90s dance craze.

Adrenalina

1996

Los Galindo poster
5.0

The life of a family from a working-class neighborhood, that after the success of their car wash business, they move to an apartment in the wealthiest neighborhood in the country.

Los Galindo

2005

20añero a los 40 poster
6.0

After a 20 year comma, a man awakens in a time when everything is different and in the body of a man of 40 years old but with a mentality of a twenty-something.

20añero a los 40

2016

La Ofis poster
NR

The daily life of a group of office workers.

La Ofis

2008

Corazón rebelde poster
4.3

During a summer camp, a group of teens spend their vacations with affinities and rivalries on the arise, the time passed there will mark the most important year of their lives. They are united by the same passion: music. But their parents and even the school principal are opposed to fulfilling their dreams.

Corazón rebelde

2009

No artwork available
3.8

Stories centered around the last hours of someone's life. Each episode takes place in one place and with no more than three or four characters.

Tiempo final

2004

El cuento del tío poster
5.0

Stories about scamming and crime in Chile's big city. All of them based on real events.

El cuento del tío

2004

Heroes poster
10.0

Chilean TV miniseries. Each episode relates the history of one of the principal figures Chilean figures of the 19th century: Bernardo O'Higgins, José Miguel Carrera, Manuel Rodríguez, Diego Portales, José Manuel Balmaceda and Arturo Prat.

Heroes

2007

No artwork available
2.0

Documentary series that takes a nostalgic journey through decades of Chilean theater and its history.

Mierda Mierda, la función debe continuar

2020

62: Historia de un mundial poster
2.0

A sports story about how the feat of realizing the dream of Chile hosting the 1962 World Cup was created.

62: Historia de un mundial

2017

Papá mono poster
2.0

Caco, an irreverent grandfather, decides to stay for a few days in the house of Francisca, his newly divorced daughter who lives with her 11 year old son Nico. Caco with his unconventional and politically incorrect solutions, helps Francisca and her son to solve different problems.

Papá mono

2017

No artwork available
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

El prisionero de la medianoche

1985

No artwork available
7.5

Hugo is a widowed father, good, honest but unemployed. In an effort to end his economical shortcomings, he agreeds to collaborate on the crazy idea of his cousin Gloria: a SME that promises to find "the love of your life". Hugo will have to become different men (lawyer, businessmam, etc) to be the ideal date.

El hombre de tu vida

2013

La colonia poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

La colonia

2010

Heredia & asociados poster
NR

The adventures of an irreverent private detective, while he is dealing with economic problems.

Heredia & asociados

2005